Toshiko Mori is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture since 2002. She has taught at the GSD since 1995, and she currently coordinates the third semester core studio and is a thesis coordinator in the Department of Architecture. Her studio options include Latency in the First City; Bubbles and Weaving: House for the 21st Century; One and a Half: Inside Out; Education and Fabrication: Master Plan for Artisans' College; Industry as Indigenous Structure: Program for Bath, Maine; and Everyday Extra-Ordinary: Urban and Domestic Inhabitation in New York City through Exploration of Materials. She has also recently taught Innovations in Structure, Materials and Construction: An Introduction to Techniques, Composition, and Strategies, Weaving Material and Habitation and Environmental Technologies with Matthias Schuler.

House on the Gulf of Mexico I, Casey Key, Florida

Mori is the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, established in 1981 in New York. Her firm's work has been widely published and has received awards and prizes internationally. Current work includes houses in Connecticut and New York, and institutional projects in Syracuse, Providence, and Buffalo and New York City. In 2003 she was awarded the Cooper Union Inaugural John Hejduk Award. In 2005, Ms. Mori received the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Medal of Honor from the New York City chapter of the AIA. She is currently an advisor to A+U Magazine and serves on the President’s Council for the Cooper Union. Prior to joining the Faculty of Design, she taught for more than a decade at The Cooper Union. She has been a visiting faculty member at Columbia University and Yale University, where she was the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor in 1992.